Ivan Perez
I was Intrigued after reading this article, and I have to say I totally would have the opposite feeling Jill Taylor felt about her losing all her brain chatter. Instead of being at peace, I would be in disharmony with myself. Imagine the voice that transcribes the thoughts you have was silent, how would you feel? I would have gone completely insane, just complete silence experiencing the world without thought and language. No internal thoughts or conversations, thus it would impossible to read this piece with the little voice one always uses to read in their head. It's like having "no mind" you're just acting on impulse because you have no thoughts and that's how animals act, so if we ever encounter this state would be be considered animals? Instead of being at peace, I say I would feel completely lost within myself like a time warp, a vast space of emptiness within my head, I would feel desperate to escape that feeling and would want all my thoughts, language, and most importantly I would want my mind back. If I had only one word to describe how I felt it would be lost.
Ivan, before I watched Jill Taylors Ted Talk, I too would have given the same response to the question. After reading the question I thought to myself, " Why in the hell would I want to lose the voice in my head that dictates my logical thinking and the way I interpret concepts?" I was puzzled and intrigued by the question but I didn't have an answer so I decided to look up Jill Taylor and what she thought about it. So I found her Ted Talk and watched it. She goes in to explain how she lost her voice in her head and how she lost it. She had a hemorrhage the size of a golf ball in the left side of her brain. This left her left side of the brain (the side that does all the thinking and making concepts out of actions) completely mute. So while her left brain is mute she was able to let her right side of the brain take over. This lead her to the complete nourishment of all the energy around her. She explains it as Euphoria and Nirvana. She was LOST deep in the beauty of the world and as she speaks you can feel her love and emotion just through the way she speaks. After listening to this enlightened woman talk about her experience I have altered my thought process. I would choose to live in the Nirvana world she invites me into at the end of her speech.
ReplyDeleteI, actually, agree with you Ivan. To lose that part of yourself, is the most horrible thing I can think of, besides death. Not having the constant thoughts to help you work things sounds awful, that is how I get through many of my issues. I talk it out in my head to find the right solution to my problem. To lose the thought process on how to solve many problems makes me question how anyone would be able to solve an issue. And to not have the constant chatter of your own thoughts, I believe, would drive me insane. When you think about it, having that chatter is what stops you from being truly alone. As soon as you lose that, not being around people, would make you truly alone, and that frightens me.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your stance Ivan. I feel as though without my thoughts, I would not be me. As individuals we each have our own perception on everything, and if our brains all the sudden decided to go silent on us, what would we do? Our sense of self would be gone. All of our thoughts, opinions, problem solving skills, and ideas would be gone. I can’t wrap my head around the idea that it would be a blissful feeling; where no thoughts ever surfaced, just silence forever. Yes, it may be nice to hear nothing but silence-peaceful actually, but only for a moment. I would do as you said you would and most likely go insane. I've lived 18 years with my thoughts and to have them all erased or just erratically disappear would be devastating. Now, as Myles commented above, I too watched the Ted Talk and to her this woman’s story is truly inspiring. Losing this part of her self- her thoughts- seems like it was one of the best things that happened to her. It allowed her to experience new things, a new world. She was enlightened. But as for me, I’m not so certain I would have handled this experience so positively.
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